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Thursday, August 5, 1976 10 YEARS AGO Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon LOW LOW PRICES PLUS GOLD STRIKE STAMPS FOR EXTRA SAVINGS: 40 YEARS AGO Despite blistering heat of 100 degrees (plus) for two days, rockhoundi from ten states and two Canadian provinces had registered for Thunderrgg Days. August 4-5-6. at the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce office by press time Wednesday night. According to Mrs. Harold (Kay) Brendle, wife of the chairman of the event, approsimately 150 people were represented in the registrations from Oregon. California. Washington. Wis consin. Arizona. Michigan. Tesas, Iowa. Illinois and Idaho; plus the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta • • • At a meeting last Thursday in Nyssa, the Snake River Valley Fire Chiefs Associa tion approved a mutual aid schedule to provide standby assistance between neighbor ing towns. Chiefs and assistants re presented were from Nyssa. Payette. New Plymouth. Vale and Ontario. • • • Harvest prospects for many of Oregon's farm products are not as bright as last year, with the esception of some berry, treefruit and vegetable crops. 20 YEARS AGO Final plans are being formulated for Nyssa's an nual Harvest Festival sche duled this year for Friday, September 21. according to Harry Tobler. general chair man of the event. The famous Sons of the Pioneers troupe has been engaged as entertainers for the free show, along with Ernie Byron. Portland, presi dent of the National Amateur Magicians Society, who will serve as master of cere monies. The Sons of the Pioneers have sis people in their group including a singer and a comedian. • • • Malheur county's total assessed valuation shows a decline of slightly more than a half million dollars, it was announced Wednesday by Assessor John Koopman. who this week received utility valuations from the Public Utilities Commission. • • • Al Ullman, Democratic candidate for U. S. represen tative for this district is espected in Malheur county today for a three-day cam paign. Tom Jones, county Democratic chairman, has arranged for Ullman to visit local packing houses in the Nyssa area and a schedule has been arranged for visits to other parts of the county. 30 YEARS AGO The Nyssa Clowns troun ced the softball team of Scott's Men's Store of Baker in a one-sided game on the Nyssa diamond Sunday after noon by a count of 15 to 3. • • • Hans for the construction of s garage and shop building by school district No. 26C north of the high school building were announced by Superintendent Henry Hart les • • • A check of water accounts in the city recorder's office this week revealed that the number of families in Nyssa have increased by at least 100 during the last year. • • • Mrs. Gerrit Stam has received additional letters of thanks from Dutch people who received used clothing from Malheur County resi dents. Mr. G. H. Palmers wrote from Stompetoren. The Ne therlands. as follows: "Our heartfelt thanks for the package you sent us. How sweet of you to send us the tea. cocoa, soap and all the other things. "lamenclosing a photo of the twins the way they look when they go to bed In their American night clothes.” Some of the star rodeo performers will be in Nyssa for the big show on August 15 and 16, according to word received here. Inquiries have been received by top rodeo performers at Pendleton. Cheyenne, Ogden, Salinas and other big shows asking for information on dates and promising to be on hand to make the Nyssa show the best in its three year history. • • • Last week it was our sad duty to chronicle the drown ing of ten year old Carl Hansen of Apple Valley, who went for an innocent swim in the waters of the Owyhee Canal. The sad accident focused attention on the need for swimming facilities in Nyssa, so that these needless sacrifices can be stopped. Do you realize that 15 lives have been lost in the Owyhee canal between Nyssa and the head of the canal? It is true that not all of these could have been prevented if there had been a municipal pool in Nyssa, but some of them would have been saved; and one life saved would have paid for a pool over and over. • • • 9 9 r Journal printing is distinc tive...has that touch to distin guish it from ordinary print ing! Printing with a per sonality. "We make type talk.” M YEARS AGO Malheur county offers success to farmers and prospective homeseekers. With its ideal climate, diver sity of crops, bountiful yield per acre, and rich fertile soil. Malheur claims to be one of the best farming sections in the country. Irrigation has wrought the change, and now rich fields replace the sagebrush plains of other days, where the land seemed but a dry dusty stretch. There is an unlimited supply of water for farmers under the Warmsprings project. The reservoir now supplies only a few thousand acres, but as soon as the new laterals for the Vale. Oregon irrigation district are constructed, it will irrigate another 30.000 acres. Page Three EFFECTIVE DATES: AUG. 5,6,7 SI * • A ’ < * «i BLADE CUT CHOKE I CHOICE TENCER BEEF ROAST MU EEC SWIFTS nFniV 55’ PAPER TOWELS KETCHUP 100 BONUS GOLD STRIKE STAMPS ON: PILLSBURY WESTERN FAMILY LARGE PITTED OLIVES 6 ox. TASTEWELL STRAWBERRY JAM FLOUR 75’ 37* 89* 26 oz. 32 oz. 68* % VIENNA SAUSAGE 4 « 3 8 89’ HEINZ CHUCK STEAK 58* :k ] BEEF STEW MEAT 9 ÏUSDA ( CHOICE I I *12? J BONELESS CUT ruxm E z PURER HEAVY DUTY 4 F detergent HOME DAIRIES COTTAGE CHEESE zt. / WESTERN FAMILY CANNED MILK • • • 13 oz. ATTABOY The location of the Central Oregon Highway from Bun- nel Station near Vale to Harper, a distance of 15.6 miles, has been completed by J. E. Peck and party of state engineers. On Thursday the location was viewed by H. G. Smith, decision engineer of Raker DOG FOOD 89*„ $099 25 b. MEADOW GOLD FRUIT PUNCH 9ol. WESTERN FAMILY CUNG PEACHES •pa 29‘ 29 oz. 89’ 49* 60 YEARS AGO Nest Sunday will be Babies' Day at the Methodist Church. A number of babies will be baptised by the Rev J. P. Graham, who will preach a sermon on "The Relation of Babies to the Kingdom.” The services will begin immediately following Sunday school and everybody is invited to attend • • • The nitrate fields of Mai hewr county continue to attract wide attention and representatives of capitalists arriving almost daily to inspect the deposits. That these deposits are exceed- ingly rich is becoming re cognized and a lively boom appears imminent. Rumors of sales in which locators realized handsome sums are rife and ground that shows any signs of value are promptly located. Some cla ims have been located several times and litigation has already resulted and is in progress. Prospectors arc plentiful and every now and then prosperous appearing men with city airs drop off the train and hire automo biles and disappear into the interior, their destination being only a matter of conjecture. All these are signs that big developments may be expected soon r GLAZED DONUTS Welcome 128*1 ROCK BANANA NUT HOUNDS BREAD 16 oz. 49’ ✓ r A jifdl jÄ, ■■ - .»yflBW F . a * 39* r • '.i>J L1 - I C ♦ I Sat. 7 to 9 p.m. THOMPSON SEEDLESS At The Grode School Lown Sponsored By Nyssa Polco Reserve stamps on all bakery and produce items. \ .• •V.«r *> S* ■< WATERMELON (ICE COLO) Get ALL these savings plus double JUMBO SIZE Sja-mP-bm* WF FEED I »-all GRAPES 59 u Wf GIVI GOLD STRIKE STAMPS
